Message-hoop.



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APPUCATIGN FILED MAY i3, |916.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.. 2d, i916@ Application filed 'May 13, 1916. Serial No.97,430.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it lrnown that we, ALBERT N. BIERLY and ELLIS BIERLY, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Central City, Boggs township, Center county,Pennsylvania, have invented aI new and useful Message- Hoop, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in devices for deliveringmessages to traveling trains, and it is an object of the invention toprovide a device of this general character having novel and improvedmeans whereby the message or other article may be conveniently andeffectively clamped to the device.

The invention consists in the details'of construction and in thecombination and arrangement of the several parts of our improved devicefor delivering messages to traveling trains whereby certain importantadvantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, lessexpensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will hereinafter be definitelyclaimed.

ln order that our invention may be the better understood, we will nowproceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a device forholding messages constructed in accordance with our invention; and Fig.2 is an edge elevation of the device as herein disclosed.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, l denotes a rod formedpreferably of wood and which has one end portion bent or returned toaord al loop 9 and secured to the free end of the outer portion of therod l affording the loop 9 is a clip 3 subst-antially U-shaped in formand which straddles the rod l and has its extremities secured to theadjacent portion of the loo-p 9 through the medium of the rivets 5 orthe like.

Disposed through the rod l and the clip 3 is the rivet or pin 7 whichholds said clip 3 against movement longitudinally of the rod l and whichalso aifords a pivot for the rocking clamp 2, said pivotal connectionbeing substantially midway of the clamp, and the intermediate portion ofsaid clamp Q is cut away, as at 8, through which extends the clip 3,said opening being of such dimensions as to permit the requisite rockingmovement being imparted to the clamp Q. The portion of the clamp 2within the loop 9 coacts with the rod l to clamp a message or the liketo the device, and said inner end portion of the clamp 2 is constantlyurged toward said rod l through the medium of lthe flat spring fisecured, as at 6, to the opposite end portion of the clamp 2 and bearingagainst the rod l at a point without the loop.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that adevice for holding messages constructed in accordance with our inventionis of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and isparticularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience andfacilitv with which it may be assembled, and it will also be obviousthat our invention is susceptible of some change andmodification withoutmaterial departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for thisreason we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to theprecise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown incarrying out our invention in practice, except as hereinafter claimed.

We claim:

1. A device of the character described comprising an elongated rodhaving one end portion returned to afford a loop, a clip secured to theend of said return portion and straddling the rod, a member disposedthrough the clip and the rod for holding said clip against movementlongitudinally of the rod, and a clamping member coacting with theportion of the rod comprised in the loop, said member for holding theclip against movement serving as a pivotal mounting for the clamp.

2. A device of the character described comprising an elongated rodhaving one end portion returned to afford a loop, a clip secured to theend oi said return portion and straddling the rod, a member disposedthrough the Clip and the rod for holding said clip against movementlongitudinally of the rod, and a clamping member ooaoting with theportion of the rod comprised in the loop, said member for holding theclip ALBERT N. BIERLY. ELLIS BIERLY.

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